Cast: Karazawa Toshiaki, Sorimachi Takashi, Kimura Yoshino, Nishida Naomi, Koyuki
Theme Song: "Free" by Sorimachi Takashi Producer: Wada Kou; Director: Sawada Kensaku, Mizuta Narihide
Writer: Kimizuka Ryouichi
Network: Fuji TV
Showtime: Thursday nights at 10 pm, starting October 12
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An office comedy starring Karasawa as a business elite heading the secretarial section and Sorimachi as his subordinate. Both Karasawa and Sorimachi are cho-kakko ii playboys that go out with a lot of women, but actually Karasawa hides behind his cool facade as someone who is fatally attracted to women while Sorimachi's problem is that he has a mother complex and cannot have sex properly with women. The two of them are transferred to the secretarial department to discover which of the seven secretaries there are embezzling funds. The two find themselves among a company of women who - for one reason or another - dislike men.
Cast: Takenouchi Yutaka, Nakatani Miki, Katou Ai, Oosugi Ren, Sugimoto Tetta, Yamada Maiko
Theme Song: "The Angel Song - Eve no Hitomi" by The Brilliant Green
Producer: Ueda Hiroki; Director: Shuono Jirou, Imai Natsuki
Writer: Shimizu Tou
Network: TBS
Showtime: Friday nights at 10 pm, starting October 13
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Takenouchi plays a 29-year old boxer, who makes his living working for the yakuza. Both he and Nakatani grew up in an orphanage in Okinawa, but lost touch with each other until meeting up again 18 years later in Tokyo. Nakatani is a 24-year old salesgirl with the innocent and pure heart of a child. Their chance meeting takes place one day while Takenouchi is under orders from his boss to tail a scoutsman who tries to pick up Nakatani. Takenouchi rescues her from his clutches, but does not recognise her at first as his childhood friend from Okinawa...
Cast: Matsushima Nanako, Tsutsumi Shinichi, Yada Akiko, Nishimura Masahiko, Sudou Risa, Kakei Toshio
Theme Song: "Everything" by Misia
Producer: Ishihara Takashi, Iwata Yuuji
Director: Wakamatsu Setsurou, Hirano Makoto
Writer: Nakazono Miho
Network: Fuji TV
Showtime: Monday nights at 9 pm, starting October 9
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A romantic comedy in which Matsushima Nanako plays an avaricious stewardess who's sole purpose in life is to marry a rich man, and thus constantly goes to "go-kon" (Japanese dating event). Tsutsumi Shinichi used to be a mathematics professor but he gave it up to take over his family fish shop when his father passed away. He is coerced by his friend to go to a "doctor's" go-kon and meets Matsushima. Her resemblance to someone he used to love made him fall instantly in love with her, and Matsushima, thinking that he is a wealthy doctor, becomes interested in him too...
Cast: Tamura Jun, Tamura Ryo, Uehara Takako, Naitou Takashi, Goto Risa
Network: NTV
Showtime: Saturday nights at 9 pm
Starts October 14
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Tamura Ryo and Tamura Jun work as an ambulence rescue team but they're always goofing off and chasing girls but the fun ends when a new boss (Naitou Takashi) takes over, as Naitou is a business elite returning to Tokyo from the United States. Meanwhile, they are infatuated with a beautiful female doctor (Suzuki Anju) who works in the same hospital as Jun's sister (Uehara Takako) and one day, they make the mistake of taking a patient to her hospital instead of the one he was registered for.
Cast: Mikami Hiroshi, Harada Tomoyo, Takenaka Naoto, Ken Kaneko, Yonekura Ryoko
Network: NTV
Showtime: Wednesday nights at 10 pm
Starts October 11
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Mikami Hiroshi is a very talented and elite producer who returns to Tokyo after being exiled abroad for 6 years (transferred as a result of a past mistake he made). Immediately upon his return, he wants to remove Harada Tomoyo, a competent but not brilliant broadcaster, from her position as the main newscaster. Harada tries to fight back, but she has an additional enemy in Yonekura Ryoko, who wants her newscaster position, with a "complicated" relationship with Mikami. An expose of the cut-throat world of broadcasting news...
Cast: Tamura Masakazu, Hirosue Ryoko, Mizuno Miki, Ishida Yuriko, Okada Junichi, Kurogi Hitomi
Theme Song: "Sayonara Daisuki Na Hito" by Hana*Hana
Producer: Yagi Yasuo; Director: Kiyohiro Makoto, Katayama Osamu
Writer: Yukawa Kazuhiko
Network: TBS
Showtime: Sunday nights at 9 pm, starting October 8
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Family comedy with Tamura Masakazu playing the role of a traditional Japanese father ("ganko oyaji") - being very stubborn and selfish. Mizuno Miki is his eldest daughter, a beautiful and nice kindergarten teacher who has no boyfriend. Hirosue Ryoko is their second daughter, currently in junior college and engaged to a business elite (Todai graduate) with a secret past. Okada Junichi (from V6) is their youngest son, attending a prep college for medical school, and is under great pressure to succeed his father's business. (Tamura is a doctor with his own small hospital.) Tamura meets Ishida Yuriko who is a club hostess and they fall in love...
Cast: Eguchi Yosuke, Uchida Yuki, Ninomiya Kazunori, Totas Matsumoto
Theme Song: "Tobenai Tori" by Yuzu
Network: Fuji TV
Showtime: Wednesday nights at 9 pm
Starts October 11
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Eguchi Yosuke is a carpenter who takes over the care of the four children of his
"sempai" who dies in a fire, and takes them back to his boss's home, where he
lives. The boss has a grown up daughter (Uchida Yuki) who came back to her parents
house after her divorce from a marriage that lasted only one year.
Cast: Kishitani Goro, Zaizen Naomi, Suzuki An, Abe Hiroshi, Itaya Yuka, Kitamura Ikki
Producer: Kato Masatoshi, Miyake Yoshishige; Director: Kinoshita Takao, Murakami Masanori
Director: Egashira Michiru
Network: Fuji TV
Showtime: Tuesday nights at 10 pm, starting October 10
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Kishitani Goro is a widower working in an omiai club, but is not very motivated in his job. Zaizen Naomi is a famous romance novelist who despite her profession is very inexperienced in love, and is one of Kishitani's clients. But she's too idealistic in her demands for a partner and he loses patience with her, telling her to give up, and they part on bad terms. But they meet again one night in a pub and after swapping life stories, they become friends and he decides to help her find her mate. On their way home, he meets his estranged daughter, Suzuki An, in the streets after she ran away from her grand-parents house (whom she lives with) to find him...
Cast: Matsumoto Koushirou, Takashima Reiko, Toba Jun, Mita Yoshiko, Sakai Miki
Network: NTV
Showtime: Monday nights at 10 pm, starting October 9
Style!
Cast: Motoki Masahiro, Takeuchi Yuko, Sakai Maki, Sano Shiro
Network: TV Asahi
Showtime: Thursday nights at 9 pm
Starts October 12
Cast: Enomoto Kanako, Sawamura Ikki, Miyasako Hiroyuki
Network: TV Asahi
Showtime: Saturday nights at 11 pm
Starts October 14
Aijin no Okite
Cast: Mizuno Maki, Ishiguro Ken, Hosokawa Shigeki, Junna Risa
Network: TV Asahi
Showtime: Friday nights at 11 pm
Starts October 13